Still heavy but with a positive spin.
BAPTISM OF OUR LORD
2014
I know we have an
annual meeting to do, so I'm preaching one of the shortest sermons
I've ever preached.
There is a Sufi saying I love a lot—a
saying I think we need to keep in mind in our lives. It goes like
this: “when you hear hoof-beats, look for a Zebra….”
The Sufis are trying to tell us to
look for the extraordinary, the wondrous, the unexpected, the
mysterious in every common moment of our lives.
Good advice, I would say.
One of my professors in seminary, Jess
Trotter, who was as gentle and genuine a man as you could ever hope
to meet, told me this: “wherever you are, whoever
you meet, tell yourself this: ‘that person is the one
for whom Christ died’.”
I’d recommend that bit of wisdom to
us all.
Imagine what a difference it would
make in how you encountered and reacted to the people in your
life—your family, your friends, you acquaintances, even total
strangers—if when you came in contact with them you imagined that
each of them was the ONE—the ‘very one’—for whom Christ died.
Good advice, I would say. Advice to
transform our lives.
Just imagine what a difference it
would make if in this Annual Meeting and in our lives as a community
and individuals we always 'looked for Zebras' and knew in our hearts
that everyone we met 'was the One for whom Christ died....”
Ponder that, if you will as we move
forward.....
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